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University of Hamburg · Sustainability Economics Group · beaumont.schoeman@uni-hamburg.de · beaumontschoeman.com

Academic positions

University of Hamburg — Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Postdoctoral Researcher, Sustainability Economics Group (MEEP Project), 2025–present.
University of Basel — Faculty of Business and Economics (WWZ)
Research Fellow, Chair of Public Economics.
ETH Zürich
Research Affiliate, Sustainability Economics.

Previous positions

University of Basel — Faculty of Business and Economics
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021–2025 (parental leave, 1/2022 – 3/2022).
Research and Teaching Assistant, 2016–2021.
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute — Household Economics and Health Systems Research
Postdoctoral Scientific Collaborator, 2023–2025.

Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Basel, 2021.
Dissertation: “Cause and Effect: Essays in Development, Mobility, and Gender Economics.” Committee: Prof. Dr. Beat Hintermann, Prof. Dr. Conny Wunsch, Prof. Dr. Alois Stutzer (chair).

Study Center Gerzensee, Programme for Beginning Doctoral Students, 2016.

M.Sc. Economics, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, 2014.

B.Com. Economics and Finance, University of Auckland, 2011.

B.A. German, University of Auckland, 2011.

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Hintermann, B., B. Schoeman, J. Molloy, T. Götschi, A. Castro-Fernández, C. Tchervenkov, U. Tomic, K. W. Axhausen. Pigovian Transport Pricing in Practice. Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming, 2026). CESifo Working Paper No. 11871. Link
  2. Hintermann, B., B. Schoeman, J. Molloy, T. Schatzmann, C. Tchervenkov, K. W. Axhausen (2023). The Impact of COVID-19 on Mobility Choices in Switzerland. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Link
  3. Molloy, J., A. Castro-Fernández, T. Götschi, B. Schoeman, C. Tchervenkov, U. Tomic, B. Hintermann, K. W. Axhausen (2022). The MOBIS Dataset: A Large GPS Dataset of Mobility Behaviour in Switzerland. Transportation, 1–25. Link
  4. Molloy, J., T. Schatzmann, B. Schoeman, C. Tchervenkov, B. Hintermann, K. W. Axhausen (2021). Observed Impacts of the Covid-19 First Wave on Travel Behaviour in Switzerland Based on a Large GPS Panel. Transport Policy 104, 43–51. Link

Under review

Schoeman, B. Income Shocks and Intra-household Bargaining: Theory and Evidence from South Africa. Submitted. PDF

Work in progress

  • Schoeman, B. Carbon Pricing, Sectoral Channels, and Distributional Incidence: Evidence from Germany’s BEHG.
  • Schoeman, B. Crisis-Born Capital: Endogenous Investment and the Private Response to South Africa’s Loadshedding Crisis.
  • Schoeman, B. Colonial Cash-Crop Lock-In as a Climate Liability: Threshold-Crossings in Former Plantation Economies.
  • Schoeman, B. The Imported Grid: Long-Run Effects of Colonial Urban Planning Doctrine on Within-City Flood Vulnerability.
  • Schoeman, B. Policy-Restricted Residential Sorting and Urban Amenity Capitalization: Evidence from the South African Group Areas Act.
  • Schoeman, B. The Revealed Local Value of Big-Game Wildlife: Evidence from 10,000 Protected Areas.

Other publications

  1. Molloy, J., A. Castro-Fernández, T. Götschi, B. Schoeman, C. Tchervenkov, B. Hintermann, K. W. Axhausen (2020). A National-Scale Mobility Pricing Experiment Using GPS Tracking and Online Surveys in Switzerland: Response Rates and Survey Method Results. Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung 1555, ETH Zurich.
  2. Achtnicht, M., K. von Graevenitz, S. Koesler, A. Löschel, B. Schoeman, M. A. Tovar Reaños (2019). Road Transport and Its Potential Inclusion in the EU ETS. The European Dimension of Germany’s Energy Transition 493–508, Springer, Cham.

External funding

2022–2023 — “Gesellschaftlicher Nutzen von Mobility Pricing” (Societal Benefit of Mobility Pricing), Co-PI. WWZ Förderverein Project Nr. FV-103. Total funded: CHF 63,000.

2020–2022 — “The Implications of Covid-19 for Mobility-Related Energy Use and External Costs”, Co-PI. Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE), grant nr. 8100079-05. Funded: CHF 171,000.

2018–2020 — “Empirical Analysis of Mobility Behavior in the Context of Dynamic Pricing (MOBIS)”, Co-PI. Joint project with ETH Zurich and ZHAW, funded by Innosuisse (JA SCCER CREST-Mobility) and the Swiss Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK). Funded: CHF 1,137,000.

Conference organisation

2024 — SURED (Ascona).

Conferences and workshops

2025 — EARE Annual Conference (Bergen); AURÖ Workshop for Young Researchers in Environmental and Resource Economics (Mannheim); MEEP Workshop (Frankfurt).

2024 — SURED (Ascona); Advances with Field Experiments (London).

2023 — Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Congress (Neuchâtel); Gavi The Vaccine Alliance / PATH Workshop (Geneva).

2022 — ZEW Workshop on Experimental Economics for the Environment (Online); Advances with Field Experiments (Chicago); Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Congress (Fribourg).

2021 — Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (Online); Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Congress (Online); Swiss Statistics Meeting (Lugano).

2020 — Annual Congress of the German Economic Association / Verein für Socialpolitik (Online); Swiss Transport Research Conference (Ascona)†; Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Congress (Zurich)†; International Conference on Transport Survey Methods (Portugal)†.

2019 — Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Congress (Geneva).

†Cancelled due to COVID-19.

Invited presentations

2022 — Swiss Association of Energy Economists; University of Neuchâtel.

Refereeing

Transport Policy.

Teaching & thesis supervision

University of Basel

  • Master theses supervised: S. Gerfin (2024), J. Wellauer (2022), J. Roth (2021), R. Stutzer (2021), L. Seiler (2020).
  • Public Economics (Master): Spring ’24.
  • Seminar in Public Finance (Master): Spring ’17–’23.
  • Seminar in Public Finance (Bachelor): Spring ’17–’23.
  • Public Finance Teaching Assistant (Bachelor): Autumn ’18–’20.

Programming & software

  • Advanced: R (causal inference, GIS applications), Stata, LaTeX.
  • Intermediate: Markdown, Python, Matlab, Git.
  • Software: Qualtrics, Ngene, Converia, MS Office.

Honours & awards

  • Doctoral Thesis Award, Swiss Association for Energy Economics, 2021.
  • Doctoral Scholarship, University of Basel, 2015.
  • Graduate Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, 2012.
  • Excellence in German Prize, University of Auckland, 2010.
  • Study Abroad Scholarship, University of Auckland, 2009.

Languages & nationalities

  • Languages: English, Afrikaans (native); German (fluent); French, Spanish (elementary).
  • Nationalities: South Africa, New Zealand (citizen); Germany (permanent resident).

References

Prof. Dr. Beat Hintermann — Chair of Public Economics, University of Basel — b.hintermann@unibas.ch

Prof. Dr. Conny Wunsch — Chair of Labour Economics, University of Basel — conny.wunsch@unibas.ch

Prof. Dr. Günther Fink — Head of Household Economics and Health Systems Research, Swiss TPH — guenther.fink@swisstph.ch

Dr. Christoph Thommen — Co-Head Health Economics Research, ZHAW — christoph.thommen@zhaw.ch